Chiromantis simus (Annandale, 1915)
Chirixalus simus Annandale, 1915, Rec. Indian Mus., 11: 345. Holotype: ZSIC 17971 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 112. Type locality: "Mangaldai, Assam north of the Brahmaputra", India.
Philautus simus — Cochran, 1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 40: 179. by implication; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 583.
Rhacophorus (Chirixalus) simus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 106.
Chirixalus simus —Inger In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 538.
Chiromantis simus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.
English Names
Assam Asian Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).
Annandale's Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 90).
Annandale's Pigmy Tree Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 46).
Assam Tree Frog (Rahman and Howlader, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 561).
Distribution
Northeastern India (Assam, Mizoram, and West Bengal) as well as in intervening Bangladesh (Chittagong and Moulvibazar District).
Comment
See Deuti, Biswas, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2000, Hamadryad, 25: 215-217, for discussion of habits, distribution, and type locality. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 146-147, 216, and provided a brief account. Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 46, provided a brief account for northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 92, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. Hasan, Hossain, Kabir, and Hassan, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 506, provided a record for Bangladesh (Mymensingh Division) and commented on the range. Rahman and Howlader, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 561-562, provided a range extension in Bangladesh.
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